Stephen
Phillips

Author of science
fiction

and other stories

Welcome
to my website. In it, you can find out about my books and how you
can obtain free samples &/or purchase them, as well as news
about my current projects.

The first three books are a science fiction
trilogy, set in the not too distant future, when humanity has
already colonised Mars, but needs to escape from the confines of
this solar system in order to secure its long-term future. In it we
discover how to travel long distances effectively, as well as
learning something about our development as a race. Like most
science fiction, it addresses today’s issues in a way that is
unconstrained by the politics of the world. To take a lead from the
great SF writer, Isaac Asimov, this is really 'future history';
ordinary things happening to ordinary people in (perhaps) unusual
surroundings.

The Ice Cream Seller,
an historical murder mystery, looking at the life of a young woman
in four different time periods is now available on Kindle. at a
UK price of £2.02 (free onkindleunlimited). It is now also available as a
paperback directly
from the publishers for £5.25 + p&p.

My fifth novel, Raptor, is a spy
story set during the First World War. It follows the adventures of
brother and sister team Edgar and Agatha Smythe as they travel
through war-torn northern Europe in pursuit of a spy within the
British army. Their activities are hampered by the activities of a
hated cousin, a Generalmajor in German intelligence, risking not
only their lives, but Agatha's virtue. This book is now available
on Kindle.

I am currently working on my sixth novel,
The Templar Pitt, which is set in the early
thirteenth century and follows the life of a master carpenter who
becomes mixed up iwith the machinations of King John and the
Knights Templar.

RECENT BOOKS

Ozymandias

This is the story of how a young astrophysicist,
Dr Rebecca Nairn and a group of like-minded scientists use emerging
technology to escape the solar system for the first time.

Rebecca meets a man who will have a massive
impact on her life. Together they face the challenges presented by
vested interests on both Earth and Mars, in an attempt to create a
new society well beyond the reach of those who wish to stop
them.

This is a story of love and betrayal
against a background that is all too similar to the problems we
face today. Overcoming them demonstrates that nothing really
changes in human nature.

LATEST NEWS

THE ICE CREAM
SELLER

Lucy Bowen has recently lost both
her mother and her boyfriend in short order. She would rather curl
up with a book, a glass of wine and her cat, than go out on a cold
November evening with her friends to see a psychic show.

When she gets there, she is singled out for a message from ‘beyond
the grave’, starting an adventure which will lead to a series of
deaths spanning almost a century and a half, in which young women
are raped and killed – apparently by the same man.

Lucy finds her relationship with the psychic developing in ways she
had not expected, as they delve into the history of murders taking
place in 1865, 1915 and potentially in 1944, too.

What they say about Ozymandias

I have just finished reading "Ozymandias". What a
book! The concept from the beginning had me intrigued and I was
fascinated by the way you encompassed the intrigues from the Mars
colony and the Mythology of the "Cult of Mithras" into the
story.

This stands on a par with Sci-Fi books I have
read over the last 50+ years, including such names as Isaac Asimov,
Paul Capon, Frank Herbert, and my absolute favourite Arthur C.
Clarke. I cannot wait for "Heraclitus".

If, after reading mine, you would like to
write a brief review that I can put on this website, please use the
contact page to e-mail me.

You can also write a brief review on either
Amazon's site for the Kindle - or the publisher's site for the
paperback, using the links in the next column for each book.

Stop Press

ZARATHUSTRA, part three of the Ozumandias
trilogy, is currently being proof-read and should be available on
Kindle by late July. In print later.

OZYMANDIAS and HERACLITUS
are now both available on Kindle. Please visit the store via your
device and search for the title of the book or go online to the
Amazon store by clicking here for Ozmandias or
here for
Heraclitus.

You can now also purchase the books in paperback from Amazon,
using the same links.

The Ice Cream Seller is now awailable on
Kindle, click here to
view, and on iBooks, click here.

My latest book, Raptor, a story set during
World War I, is now available on Kindle. click here.

The next story should be available during
2017 and is set against the background of the Knights
Templar.

ABOUT

Stephen Phillips has been writing professionally for many years,
focussing on investment and economic related issues. He has
recently left the financial services industry in order to
concentrate on creative writing. He is married with two adult
children and lives in Kent.